In this post, I’ll show you how to install Redis, a popular NoSQL database, on your OSX machine. For those unaware, Redis is described on its project site as: “an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.”

Getting started with Node.js? Looking to learn more? Wondering why I haven’t been posting as much lately? The answer to all these questions and more:

I’m proud to introduce “Learn Node.js by Example”, a full-featured course hosted on Udemy.com. I decided to create this course to provide the directed, in-depth learning experience that is difficult to achieve with isolated tutorials and blog posts.

The graph below shows average results of the SunSpider 0.9.1 JavaScript benchmark test for (what I assume to be) the 5 most popular desktop browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera.

I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at Pittsburgh Tech Fest 2012! The event will be held on June 9, at La Roche College. Pittsburgh TechFest is a one-day event for software developers in the western PA area, organized by some awesome guys from local dev user groups.